MURDER OF MILLIONS

Grey River Argus, 27 November 1944, Page 5

MURDER OF MILLIONS

Polish Victims FIENDISH GERMANS (Rec. 7.30) NEW YORK, Nov 25 In the first detailed Government report of German mass murders, tre War Refuge Board has released accounts of organised atrocities at Burkenau and ' Auschwitz, in Poland. These transcended horrors of Lublin, where fifteen hundred thousand Poles, were murdered. As many as 1,765,000 were murdered in tortur e chambers at Burkenau alone in two years to last April. Many thousands were also killed by phenol injections, brutal beatings, starvation, shooting and mutilation. The Board said: “It is an undeniable fact that Germans have deliberately and systematically murdered millions of innocent civilians.- Jews and Christians alike throughout Europe. This unprecedented campaign of terror and brutality is part of the German plan to subjugate the free people of the world.” The report said that physical and mental tortur e was scientifically devised to reduce the morale of prisoners so low that they killed one another as. a..novelty. or sought escape through.?-hopeless charges upon machine-guns- or high voltage fences.. The Germans allowed certain prisoners to escape so that they could be hunted down by dogs.